The Fifteenth Amendment gave every citizen the right to vote without being denied for race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
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A United States citizen can be denied the right to vote if he or she committed a felony. This is call felony disenfranchisement. Also young people are denied the right to vote untill the age of 18.
No amendment guarantees the right to vote. There are three that say who cannot be "denied" the right to vote, by reason of race, or gender, or age.The 15th amendment : men cannot be denied the right because of their raceThe 19th amendment : women cannot be denied the vote because of gender.The 26th amendment : those citizens 18 years of age cannot be denied the vote because of their age.
A person can not be denied the right to vote based on race, sex, or religion. However it has not always been this way.
The privilege that is extended to citizens but denied to foreigners is the right to vote
The 15th Amendment as stated in the US Constitution Section I, "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."